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Edward Young

English poet (1683–1765)

Person · Open Library

Born: June 1681
Died: 5 April 1765
Works: 127

Top works

The complaint, or, Night thoughts
A dish of chocolate for the times
Night thoughts on life, death, and immortality
Young's Revenge
The complaint

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Canada
Active from: 1945-11-12

2008 universal fire victimbluescanadianclassic rockcontemporary folkcountry

Discography

Official site Discogs Stream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 20
Total plays: 459

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

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Self-determination theory and the facilitation of intrinsic motivation, social development, and well-being.
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Adsorption of Gases in Multimolecular Layers
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The "What" and "Why" of Goal Pursuits: Human Needs and the Self-Determination of Behavior
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Quotes

“In records that defy the tooth of time.”
“Ah! what is human life?How, like the dial's tardy-moving shade,Day after day slides from us unperceiv'd!The cunning fugitive is swift by stealth;Too subtle is the movement to be seen;Yet soon the hour is up—and we are gone.”
“Great let me call him, for he conquered me.”
“Life is the desert, life the solitude;Death joins us to the great majority.”
“Souls made of fire, and children of the sun,With whom revenge is virtue.”
“The blood will follow where the knife is driven,The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.”

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Wikidata facts

Image: Joseph Highmore (1692-1780) - Edward Young (1683–1765) - ASC-132 - All Souls College.jpg

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Commons category: Edward Young
date of death: 1765-04-05
name in native language: Edward Young
start of work period: 1713-00-00
end of work period: 1745-00-00
date of birth: 1681-00-00
date of baptism: 1683-07-03
P8168: Scano di Montiferro
P12749: Henriette Sontag

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Works in European collections

36 objects attributed to Edward Young, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Article

Edward Young by Joseph Highmore Edward Young (c. 3 July 1683 – 5 April 1765) was an English poet, best remembered for Night-Thoughts, a series of philosophical writings in blank verse, reflecting his state of mind following several bereavements. It was one of the most popular poems of the century, influencing Goethe and Edmund Burke, among many others, and at the end of the century was illustrated by William Blake.

Young took holy orders, and wrote many fawning letters in search of preferment, attracting accusations of insincerity.